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I don't know what's that but it is very good. It's a drumbeat-oriented jazzfusion stuff. Really inspired music.
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I have the feeling Italy has a version restricted to the country.
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I like a lot of jazz/fusion, and avante-garde writing in music has its place in my affections too. But listening to Morricone's Space:1999 theme just gives me a headache. Awful.
Give me Barry Gray and Derek Wadsworth any day.... 
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This theme is part of a score can't place right now. But has nothing to do with the TV series.
It's not even a "space" theme; think is a dance theme to one of the obscure sexy thrillers.
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I'm not sure I care who borrowed this track from where; the point is that it's crap (for me anyway) and - more to the point - entirely unsuitable as a theme to Space:1999. I don't know of any fans of the series that are aware of this piece who actually have any regard for it.
ITC edited the two parter from Year 2 ('The Bringers of Wonder') into a feature length effort called DESTINATION MOONBASE ALPHA. While they kept Wadsworth's (rather superlative) score intact, they put library music on the titles. It was written by Mike Vickers and was of a style which complemented Wadsworth's score very well (to this day I don't know the name of Vicker's music or which library album it came from).
However, for the end titles, there was a Guido and Maurizio De Angelis song warbled (there's really no other word...) by Oliver Onions. Awful - and totally unrelated to the content of the film.
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"You and me-ee-ee....
Reality--ee-eee!"
Yeah, that end theme is a stinker. I loved the opening sequence for Destination Moonbase Alpha. The narration is totally meaningless, but the music is great.
"It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream."
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I'm not sure I care who borrowed this track from where; the point is that it's crap (for me anyway) and - more to the point - entirely unsuitable as a theme to Space:1999.
It's hardly crap but I agree it's unsuitable as a theme. OTOH it might have imbued the series with a nervy, unpredictable edge to counteract the general blandness of the thing.
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Ooooo, not a 1999 fan.
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Jul 23, 2016 - 6:40 AM
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johnjohnson
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Penta Music has announced that it will be releasing a Space:1999 soundtrack CD – scored by Ennio Morricone!
The CD features the music created for the Italian theatrical release that premiered on 14th January 1975, and consists of three episodes edited together into a feature length format: Breakaway, Ring Around The Moon, and Another Time, Another Place.
The theatrical release of Space:1999 (or Spazio 1999) pre-dated the series’s debut on Italian television by a year, with the first six episodes being broadcast from 31st January 1976. A further six episodes followed in July 1976, and the remaining twelve episodes during the autumn of the same year.
The series’s original iconic score was removed from the Italian theatrical version and replaced with a fascinating score by Morricone, who composed original material featuring frantic jazz themes and futuristic electronic sequences, reminiscent of Barry Gray’s work on UFO.
The release also includes avant-garde library material by Morricone selected from the RCA promotional series of vinyl LPs, Dimensioni Sonore, performed by symphonic orchestra, all in full stereo. Also included is the final large orchestral theme heard over the end credits, featuring vocals from Edda Dell’Orso and I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. This was re-used for the 1979 mini-series Orient Express, again scored by Ennio Morricone.
The 70-minute CD comes with a full-colour 20-page booklet containing:
archive stills
a foreword from Fanderson chairman Nick Williams
plot information and credits for the three episodes.
This will be the perfect companion to Fanderson’s own Space:1999 CDs, and explores another side of this hugely popular Anderson series.
We expect details of the release date and how to order to be available soon.
http://fanderson.org.uk/gerryandersonnews/2016/07/ennio-morricone-space1999-score-to-be-released/?platform=hootsuite
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Jul 23, 2016 - 7:15 AM
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Leo Nicols
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Penta Music has announced that it will be releasing a Space:1999 soundtrack CD – scored by Ennio Morricone!
The CD features the music created for the Italian theatrical release that premiered on 14th January 1975, and consists of three episodes edited together into a feature length format: Breakaway, Ring Around The Moon, and Another Time, Another Place.
The theatrical release of Space:1999 (or Spazio 1999) pre-dated the series’s debut on Italian television by a year, with the first six episodes being broadcast from 31st January 1976. A further six episodes followed in July 1976, and the remaining twelve episodes during the autumn of the same year.
The series’s original iconic score was removed from the Italian theatrical version and replaced with a fascinating score by Morricone, who composed original material featuring frantic jazz themes and futuristic electronic sequences, reminiscent of Barry Gray’s work on UFO.
The release also includes avant-garde library material by Morricone selected from the RCA promotional series of vinyl LPs, Dimensioni Sonore, performed by symphonic orchestra, all in full stereo. Also included is the final large orchestral theme heard over the end credits, featuring vocals from Edda Dell’Orso and I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. This was re-used for the 1979 mini-series Orient Express, again scored by Ennio Morricone.
The 70-minute CD comes with a full-colour 20-page booklet containing:
archive stills
a foreword from Fanderson chairman Nick Williams
plot information and credits for the three episodes.
This will be the perfect companion to Fanderson’s own Space:1999 CDs, and explores another side of this hugely popular Anderson series.
We expect details of the release date and how to order to be available soon.
http://fanderson.org.uk/gerryandersonnews/2016/07/ennio-morricone-space1999-score-to-be-released/?platform=hootsuite
John, thank you for the info.....this looks like a great release !
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The information surrounding this eminent release of Morricone music for Space:1999 via Penta Music (i.e. Beat Records) adds interesting aspects to this series' production chronology.
While the individual segments (Breakaway, Ring Around the Moon & Another Time, Another Place) were filmed between December of 1973 & April of 1974, the series itself was broadcast neither in the U.K. nor U.S.A. until September of 1975.
This info indicates that the Italian feature film culled from these 3 episodes (which was released in Italy in January of 1975) was seen before the series premiered anywhere on TV.
Realizing this, is it not possible, then, that Ennio Morricone wrote & recorded music for this BEFORE any of Barry Gray's music was recorded for the TV broadcasts? Very curious!
Maybe Morricone's music did not replace Barry Gray's - it likely preceded it!
[also, the credits within the liner notes for the 4-CD collection "io, Ennio Morricone" lists 1974 as the year of composition for this (which makes sense considering its January '75 premiere) ]
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There was more info about it on the site linked to earlier; thanks to the original poster! 
